The same day the country's state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) took the unusual step of publishing a short article about Ebola, featuring images of painfully ill patients and health workers in heavy protective clothing in west Africa.
If only a small amount of bone is needed, it can often be harvested, painfully, from the patient's own pelvis.
And while pregnancy, the subject of Knisley's book, is not an illness, Knisley details the many junctures in her life in which pregnancy (first, to avoid it; later, to enact it; finally, to see it through) has made her, sometimes quite painfully, a medical patient.
Regular MRIs and X-rays can reveal the damage only after patients are painfully aware of the problem and it's too late to reverse the osteoarthritis.
Back at the clinic, Mr. Monfort struggled to fix an IV that had missed the vein and was painfully pumping fluids under a patient's skin.
He did so one day after the president used a White House news conference to press Congressional Republicans to come to the table on a federal deficit compromise and asked voters to be patient about the painfully slow recovery.
I've written extensively in the past 18 months about the importance of data to healthcare, but to date even simple measures like the digitization of patient records remains painfully slow.
In an October 2003 study 29 patients had their painfully hunched backs unbent by 8.8 degrees.
These layers ensure regulators and lawyers business but keep the costs to patients and taxpayers painfully high.
My students seem to know what we had to so painfully learn: the secret in the care of the patient is caring for the patient.
